Fay Butler Fab/Metal Shaping

Fay's Ultimate Library

Woodworking Technology
By James Hammond, Edward Donnelly, Walter Harrod, Norman Rayner
Printed from 1961 – 1972+
Pictured is the third Edition 1972
Library of Congress Catalogue Card # 70-163293
ISBN: 87345-017-5
457 pages, 18 Sections
Printed in B&W with 8 color plates of wood species
8 inch by 10.5-inch format

This book is no longer in print. It can be purchased very affordable from used sources. This was used universally throughout New England High Schools as the Industrial Arts and Vocational wood working textbook. The professors at Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA, who I knew all four, wrote this book. Walter Harrod was my college woodworking professor at Fitchburg State College in the very early 1970’s and beyond teaching me how to be a competent furniture maker; I credit him with teaching me how to think. He laid out the format of a professional craftsman through wood working, which profoundly impacted me then and still does today. This book lays out the tools, materials, and construction of wood products with an emphasis on furniture. It is highly illustrated. When I built my reproduction Queen Ann highboy in cherry wood in the 1980’s, I used the formula in the book for all the construction details, which included the draw dovetail sizes. I asked Walter Harrod, retired by then, if he would make some piece for the highboy, so I would have a piece of furniture that we both worked on together. I now take my cloths out of that highboy every day, and think of Walter Harrod, now deceased. When I performed my student teaching in an industrial arts HS classroom, I did so under Norman Rayner, because of his association with this book. He also retired in the early 1970’s and is now deceased. When I’m framing an automobile wood structure for a classic car, I refer to the mortise and tenon formula in this book.

I highly recommend this book for all craftsmen’s library.